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moike
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 Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 4:27 pm Post subject: 38 in U.S. and Romania Charged |
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http://newhaven.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2008/nh051908.htm
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International Law Enforcement Cooperation Leads to Disruption of Organized Crime Ring Operating in U.S. and Romania
BUCHAREST, ROMANIA – Thirty-eight individuals with ties to international organized crime have been charged in two separate indictments involving computer and credit card fraud schemes, Deputy Attorney General Mark R. Filip, Romanian Prosecutor General Laura Codruţa K övesi, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Thomas P. O’Brien and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut Nora R. Dannehy announced today. The Deputy Attorney General made the announcement with the Romanian Prosecutor General to highlight the extensive and continued cooperation between the two countries in addressing these types of international crimes. The announcement comes less than one month after U.S. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey announced the Department’s new Law Enforcement Strategy to Combat International Organized Crime.
“International organized crime poses a serious threat not only to the United States and Romania, but to all nations,” said Deputy Attorney General Mark R. Filip. “Criminals who exploit the power and convenience of the Internet do not recognize national borders; therefore our efforts to prevent their attacks cannot end at our borders either. Through cooperation with our international partners, we can disrupt and dismantle these enterprises, just as we have done today with these indictments and arrests.”
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles charged 33 individuals in a 65-count indictment unsealed today for their alleged participation in an international racketeering scheme that used the Internet to defraud thousands of individual victims and hundreds of financial institutions. Seven individuals were charged in a District of Connecticut indictment for their roles in an Internet phishing scheme, including two who were also charged in the Los Angeles case.
U.S. law enforcement authorities are executing nine arrest warrants in the Los Angeles area and Romanian law enforcement authorities are executing search warrants in Romania today in connection with the racketeering indictment.
As described in the indictments and other publicly filed documents, a "phishing" scheme uses the Internet to target large numbers of unwary individuals, using fraud and deceit to obtain private personal and financial information such as names, addresses, bank account numbers, credit card numbers and Social Security numbers. Phishing schemes often work by sending out large numbers of counterfeit e-mail messages, which are made to appear as if they originated from legitimate banks, financial institutions or other companies.
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moike
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A few more details ...
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/may08/phishing_052008.html
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Global Ring Gets Rather Slick
They had quite a gig going, until a coalition of feds and foreign partners busted it up.
In a pair of related cases announced on Monday, a total of 38 people with links to global organized crime—mostly working out of Romania and the U.S., but also operating in Pakistan, Portugal, and Canada—were indicted for engineering a decidedly 21st century cyber-based scheme.
It was rooted in what has become a fairly routine online crime: “phishing,” a form of cyber seduction where you get an e-mail that looks like it’s from your bank or another trusted institution but is really a way to con you into giving up personal information (PINs, social security numbers, credit card information, etc.)…along with its up-and-coming second cousin, “smishing,” which carries on the same ruse via text messaging.
But what these criminals allegedly did—at least in the case based in Los Angeles—took this scheme a few steps farther, giving the online scam a clever offline payoff and ultimately swindling thousands of people and hundreds of financial institutions out of millions before being shut down.
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